tl;dr - inventing the wheel wasn’t the hard part, it was inventing the structure to connect wheels to a static system.
I think this is true for a lot of other inventions too. What we usually point to as the invention is really just the surface of a whole system that had to come together. The iPod, for example, wasn’t just a music player. It only worked because mini hard drives, batteries, mp3 compression, etc. The thing we remember as the invention is really the moment when all the pieces finally clicked.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 15.2 ms ] threadI think this is true for a lot of other inventions too. What we usually point to as the invention is really just the surface of a whole system that had to come together. The iPod, for example, wasn’t just a music player. It only worked because mini hard drives, batteries, mp3 compression, etc. The thing we remember as the invention is really the moment when all the pieces finally clicked.